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CentOS 7: Home Networking

CentOS is a lot smarter than you might expect. It knows when it is connected to a home router. The new firewall quickly adjusts and generally does the right thing. However, it won’t automatically allow you to link to the … Continue reading →

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CompSec: The Other CIA

Computers are essentially the means to data storage and processing. In that sense, data has value. Never mind theories about money and store of value; data is its own kind of thing. The whole business of computers and networking is … Continue reading →

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I Was Just Trying to Help

Let’s explore some of the implications of the Doctrine of Leverage and all my blather about Christlike charity and moral sacrifice. We understand the necessity of standing back and suffering the empathy of those who hurt without taking action because … Continue reading →

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Desktop CentOS 7: Added Repos

This is simply my own recommendation. In order to run CentOS 7 on the desktop, most folks want stuff you can’t get from CentOS directly. For example, most of us still use websites that require Flashplayer. Adobe has set up … Continue reading →

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Psalm 7

People who don’t understand the Hebrew style of logic regard this psalm as wandering from one idea to another. They even imagine it might be several short bits thrown together, as if Hebrew scholars were no wiser than half-grown children. … Continue reading →

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Information Activist 2

If “activist” means striving to force a change in government policy, then I am not one of them. It seems I often have to explain why we are not supposed to participate in democratic government: It’s fundamentally immoral. Democracy is … Continue reading →

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PySolFC on CentOS 7: Tk Errors

So you either built it from SRPMs or simply got the necessary libraries and got the source. Either way, you’ve got PySolFC on your CentOS/RHEL 7 machine and it won’t work. If you try to launch it from the CLI, … Continue reading →

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FYI: Yet Another Risk Factor in Windows

Hackers have found a way to incorporate that highly advanced NSA-grade spyware into their criminal malware. Is anybody surprised? Where computer technology is concerned, my whole mission is enabling the transmission of truth. Anything that hinders that is my enemy, … Continue reading →

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Mission Technology and Technology Mission

In terms of our meat space activity, the mission always comes first. Nobody said you can’t have hobbies and entertainment, but you must evaluate them as to whether they hinder the mission. No one ever really grows up to the … Continue reading →

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Moral Discernment

It’s never what I expect. That has never hindered me serving fruitfully, but it seems to be a given that I’ll be looking in the wrong direction when it comes. So I have learned to spend less time on developing … Continue reading →

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